"Dynamically loading libraries is a big deal, and it's closer than ever." Sigh. Dynamically loaded C extensions were working long ago <https://lists.gnu.org/a

"Dynamically loading libraries is a big deal, and it's closer than ever." Sigh. Dynamically loaded C extensions were working long ago <https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/gnu-emacs-sources/2002-04/msg00012.html> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/gnu-emacs-sources/2002-04.... It wasn't even a "big" thing -- most of the change was in the build system. rms wouldn't let them in because he (via Moglen?) thought they would undermine the copyleft. That was worrying as a design criterion was to make them (almost?) equivalent at compile time and after loading to things built into the Emacs core normally, so that derived work status should be clear in a court. Perhaps eventually someone will re-do other things, like replacing the GC.